Question

Form a queue. (informal request)​

Answer 1

Answer:

Are you in the queue for tickets?

There was a long queue of traffic stretching down the road.

If you want tickets you'll have to join the queue.

disapproving It makes me mad when someone jumps the queue (= goes straight to the front).

picture of queue

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a lot of people wanting something:

There's a queue of companies wanting to sell the product.

More examples

Form an orderly queue.

There was a queue of people waiting patiently for the bus to arrive.

When the doors opened she barged her way to the front of the queue.

I was waiting in the bus queue when two men pushed in in front of me.

She was at the head of the queue but I was at the tail end.